Woman and spiritual equality in Christian tradition
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Woman and spiritual equality in Christian tradition
Macmillan, c1998
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Bibliography: p. [283]-301
Includes index
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Description
This text challenges the assumption in contemporary discourse that Christianity is exclusively misogynist by documenting the presence of a long, strong, and positive tradition based on women's spiritual equality. In chronological order, references and images of women in church writings and lay culture are explored, as well as the actual lives of women and their vitae. Ranft shows how the accumulated evidence provides data that this positive tradition co-existed with the misogynist tradition. For a millennium and a half, Ranft reveals, Christianity possessed the lone voice in society that posited women's equality in any aspect. She argues that without knowledge of this tradition, our understanding of the history of Western women is significantly incomplete.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction The Spiritual Nature of Woman in Scripture and Early Christian Writings Women in Early Christian Communities Fourth-Century Theologians Fourth-Century Women Devotional Life and Mary in Late Antiquity Early Medieval Saints: East and West Early Medieval Monasticism and Church Life The High Middle Ages: Hermits and Scholars The New Spirituality and Medieval Culture Late Medieval Mysticism and the Devotio Moderna Women in Late Medieval Sermons, Literature and the Arts Reformation, Counter Reformation, and Enlightenment Opinions of Women Notes Bibliography
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